Large scale European regions need an integrated civil society, that doesn´t only see the European Union as an abstract idea but as a livingspace, where they can really act in a common and transnational cooperative way. For the future it will be therefore necessary to foster transnational forms of participation, which makes it possible for young people from different neighbours Member States to create a common transregional dialog, social commitment and political participation. Although there are several initiatives a management of knowledge and empiric founded quality standards, that identifies and links in a constructive way existing transborder participation experiences and “Best-Practice-Models” are still missing. That is why the training and encounter centre Schloß Trebnitz e.V. is planning an “European Centre for transnational Youth-participation”. This project aims within the next two years at fostering and exploring transnational youth participation in the Polish-German border region. In this period of time the structural and theoretical fundaments for a sustainable implantation of this “European Centre for transnatioal youth participation” will be layed. We see participation not only in the concrete field of politics but in a wider space hich involves als all themes effecting the lives of young people. On the one hand it is the task to strengthen the development and the expansion of civil society committment and transnational participation in the borderregion by offering an educational and advisory service for multipliers, pedagogical staff, political and administrative decisionmakers and committed young people. On the other hand the centre serves as coordination and research institution to foster the exchange of skills and knowledge and to enhance the development of qualitiy criterias for binational participation initiatives of young people by the help of praxis and evaluation research and by building an archive for participation and cooperation projects. The annual conference for transnational youth participation will be the possibility to present and discuss the results of the project with an interested specialist community in form of the book publications and the archive for youth participation. Naturally we will produce a website which presents all the relevant results and news concerning the project. Furthermore there will be blended mobility activities with young peoples from two Polish and German schools. This activity will be a model project for the concrete testing of the project results and of establishing formal structures for local and transnational youth participation. In order to guarantee a functional project management we will have a project office in Trebnitz Castle where all activities will be coordinated and substantially organized. The partners in the project from different schools, universities, administration and foundations will plan their own activities and will coordinate their common activities. In the end there will be the following responsabilities: Universities - scientific supervision (quality standards), Schools - blended mobility activities - certificationstrategies for German-Polish Schoolactivities ; foundations and educational centers: exchange of knowledge and practical application of project results; administrations - implementation of the results in the region in other areas, structural implementation of youth participation structures. The qualitiy and the relevance of projects will signifivcantly rise through scientific monitoring, the development of qualitiy criterias, through innovative methods and the exchange of best practice. We expect the following midterm results: - A qualitative and quantitative augmentation of transnational youth participation projects in the region - A diversification of project partners by including new target groups (schools, administration, universities) - Intensification of experience sharing and crosslinking of the project partners and other stakeholders in the region (Euregio Viadrina) - the development of the region Märkisch Oderland and the Poviat Gorzow to an exemplary model area for transnational youth participation, where all relevant stakeholders, decision makers, civil society and institutions are integrated Long-term results will be a networking and spreading of our activities to the neighbours regions in Mecklenburg Vorpommern (Euregio Pomerania) and Sachsen - Saxonia (Euregio Spree Neiße Bober). We also want to use further EU programs like Erasmus plus to further implement and advance the project.